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OBSERVER Vol. 9 No. 2 October 29, 1998 Page 1 Bard Student Arrest Ignites Controversy Conduct of Deputy condemned by community Amanda Kniepkamp and Jessica Jacobs BRIDGES Program Continues Bard-Red Hook Partnership Stephanie Schneider Scrutinizing Tenure Policy: Can Bard’s System Improve? What is the tenure system? How does it work at Bard? How should it work? By Ciprian Iancu Page 2 News Briefs Vigil Held for Slain Wyoming Student Planned Parenthood Offers Services Senior Class Officers Elected Lopez Performs Weinberger Boma-aca-pieci: Free Calls Anyone? Attack of the Frosh, um, I mean, Firstyears Page 3 Corrections Bard College Minority Enrollment How Does Tenure Work? Page 5 Sister Cities Links Bard with Nicaragua Scholarships, cooking classes, a bike project and a mini school store have succeeded in Larreynaga. Now it’s time to dance Page 6 Running the Bard Internet Show: From Computer Geek to Web Wizard Internet mastermind Ben Running (yes, that’s his real name) on Macs, Web-access and why he’s often mistaken for a student Joe Stanco Page 7 Tribute Pays Homage to Bard Music Guru Ben Boretz discusses with the Observer the gridwork behind his “Black/Noise” piece, which sparks both word and image John Coyne Page 8 Center for Curatorial Studies’ Future? It’s Time to put it on Cruz Control Former Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Amada Cruz, is here to bring the CCS to the world Michael Haggerty Page 9 Dramatic Tension Defines “Other Places” Performances of three absurdist plays brought out the bitter “music of Harold Pinter” with meticulous attention to detail Film Reviews Frankenstein Meets Fellini Bride of Frankenstein Fellini’s Nights of Cabria Sameer Reddy Page 10 Almost Paradox: A Gender to Remember Equipped with strap-on dildos, heavy cream, and pulsing tracks, Drag Race ’98 breaks loose with full-tilt groovin’ Story by Ezra Feinberg; Photos by Amanda Kniepkamp Page 12 Perspectives in Music Pypers, Poppys, and Other Psychedelic Artyfacts Scott Staton Page 13 A Bit o’ Old Mexico at the Rondout Kingston’s Rosita’s restaurant delivers the nectar of the gods, a lightning-forking, life-changing experience in Burrito form Stephanie Schneider Page 14 Bibliophile Report: the Search for a Reasonable Book Price on the Hudson Alluring used bookshops in Germantown, Tivoli and Kingston still bastions of affordable books and old-world connoisseurship Michael Haggerty Page 15 Neurotic-Erotic Obsessions Gynecological Obsession Margot Fairfaxstein Miss Lonelyhearts The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry-Through Mail and Fear A Momentary Justification of the Monster Jeremy Brett Page 16 Björk, Hiccups and Plenty o’ Attitude: Dance Theatre III Playful, Impetuous Mahdi Shah Two New Exhibitions at the CCS Social themes explored at the challenging, yet somewhat overemphasized, shows, entitled “Odradek” and “Yesterday Begins Tomorrow” Huffa Frobes-Cross Page 17 Letters to the Editors and Community Observer Editorial Policy Page 20 Bot-man: The Killing Josey Chris Van Dyke, John Holowach October 29, 1998 'i' Issue 2, Volume 9 -. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 12504 THE CROWING COCK, HOW DROWSILY IT CREW: Revelers got wild on the dancefloor at the Drag Race last Saturday. Scrutinizing Tenure Policy: Can Bard's System Improve? What is the tenure system? How does it work at Bard? How should it work? L-'•·· ~~---------------------------B~v_c_n_~__ •~ __ cu ________________________ ~) FoR STUDENTS who are not aware of the intri tenure evaluation for a permanent position in cacies of the tenure system at Bard, the careers the Social Sciences Division. To Marisa's dis of faculty members may seem quiet and may, Jon Kahn was denied tenure despite sub uncomplicated, distant from the troubles of stantial support from both faculty and stu the modern American workplace. But for those dents. aware of the complexiries involved in hiring · "You spend the first two years at school get- professors for lifetime positions, no assessment · ting to know a professor and making connec seems more uninformed. tions with him," Marisa remarked. "And then One student who abruptly learned this real you start your junior year and now, the point ity is Marisa Silverman, a junior Political where you really need the advisor, you won't Science major. Her advisor is Jonathan Kahn, have one. I have no idea whom to ask robe my Assistant Professor of History and Political : ( ) CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Studies. Last year, Professor Kahn underwent ~--------------~ BRIDGES Program Continues Bard-Red Hook Partnership ( BY S'TEPHANIE ScHNEIDER ) ~activities that the-children will do later on in the Not only will the relationship between the teach- : year. As Ann Gabler, grants writer for Bard College · ers and the professional artists be expanded, but also The BRIDGES program, an educational effort joining said, "They'll actually experience what their students . the relationship between the Red Hook schools and community artists, Bard College, and the Red Hook will experience." . Bard College. Gabler said that the:: focus this year school system, kicked off the year with a conference _ The conference included keynote speaker Eric · will be on performance and the arts. BRIDGES will involving school teachers and artists, and looks Booth, author of "The Everyday Work of Art," small work in conjunction with the Playback theatre and towards 1998 as a year of expansion and reflection. : group workshops, and artist/teacher meetings. The also will work with Bard student performers in an The conference, held October 9, proved to be a goal of the conference was to encourage the artists and effort to tailor student concerts, dance and theatre successful start. Teachers from the Red Hook schools - the teachers to "work together to create and deliver a productions co the elementary school-aged children. had the opportunity to meet with the artists who broad range of competent and creative instruction," as ( ) CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 will visit their classrooms and participate in the stated in a letter for Red Hook school district faculty. ~----------------~ INSIDErHISISSUBNSIDrntiSISSUEINSIDEfHISISSUEINSIDETHISISSUEINSIDETHISISSUEINSIDETHISISSUEINSIDETHIS P17 Letters to the Community from the BBSO, LASO, and Nicole Woods OPINIONS 2 THE BARD OBSERVER N E WTHURSDAY. S OCTOBER 29, 1998 Arrest of Bard Student Ignites Controversy ( CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ) : .Not o~ly h~ this in-Cid~rli: -given rise.~ o~trage. Furthermore, Becker plans to investigate the . " · :· about ractsm m surroundmg commumttes, It has : actions of all Bard staff involved and to review Dean of Students Jonathan Becker arrived i~ also spotlighted racial tensions and safety concerns existing protocols and procedures. Fegan declined Rhinebeck, but were denied access to Bourdeau . on Bard's own campus. "Racism is a sickness that is to comment. They learned he was to . be arraigned later that : sub de but you can find it in places you don't expect. Both Brock and Assistant Director of Security night by Red Hook Judge Richard Griffiths. : It shouldn't be found at Bard, a 'liberal' place, but Lisa Sadowsky strongly defended the actions of the Becker and Nicole Woods, assistant dean of stu- .. ir is found here everywhere. Security should have . security guards present on Saturday night. "They dents and director of multicultural affairs attended . stopped [the incident]; the Resident Director _ are comfortable with their response in terms of our the arraignment. Becker was allowed to speak on _ should have stopped it. People need to speak," said policy, our protocols. But they're not comfortable Bourdeau's behalf and Bourdeau was released into Wu-Norman at a meeting held Sunday night in . seeing this happen to a student," said Sadowsky. Becker's custody. No bail was demanded. Olin. The meeting was called by Woods to offer a : ''Any of the guys, but these guys in particular- Currently, Bourdeau faces charges of petty larce- . : Max, Dave, Gilbert-if there was anything they ny, resisting arrest, and second-degree assault of a . Faculty and staff of color encouraged the could have done safely and legally ro intervene, to police officer. According to Woods, excessive force · · stop it, they would have done it." was.used in the detainment ofBourde~u, inciuding_.. COmmunity at large to follOW the leadership Brock stressed that the guards were legally oblig- one to four blows to either Bourdeau's back, legs, : · ated to assist the officer, regardless of their own feel- or head. In addition, "there is a significant and : of the BBSO. UThe eagerness to respond . ings. "They followed existing policies and proce- cl~ar racial component" to the incident, according. immediately indicateS an ignorance of the dures right down the line. They followed the laws to Becker. right down the line. That does not mean there Contrary to the administration's account, context of the "tssue ,. sa'td Woods might not be a need to change some 'of these proce- of the Sheriff's Office was ' • Captain Dennis O'Keeffe . dures," he said. Brock invites students to approach quoted in Tuesday's The Poughkeensie journal as say- r forum for involved students and friends to express him in person with suggestions and concerns. ing, "The guy was resisting. [The Deputy] must . - · · - emotions prompted by Saturday night's events. At Tuesday night's meeting, yet another ques- have taken him right down to the ground: Then, ; -At the town meeting held Tuesday night, attend- tion was raised: Is this a community issue, or an when he let him get l:lP the guy punched the · ed by nearly 400 Bard students, faculty and staff, issue primarily for students of color? Faculty and deputy in the face four times." Eye-witnesseS have · · · more safety issues were raised and the administra- . staff of color encouraged the community at large to challenged this accusation. Bob Brock, director of · · tion was accused of violating students' trust.